Auxiliary safety pocket



Aug. 5, 1941. PUQDIS 2,251,576

I AUXILIARY SAFETY POCKET Filed Jan.- 26, 1940 INVENTOR Pefer Food/,1;

BY W a 3m Patented Aug. 5, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application January 26, 1940, Serial No. 315,645

1 Claim.

My invention relates to garments and relates particularly to a safety pocket for a mans garment.

Heretofore, pockets have been made for mens trousers, and it also has been suggested in the prior art that pockets have enclosures and even zippers thereon, but such pockets have not made provision for preventing withdrawing of the entire pocket so that the pocket can be cut or ripped from the pants.

It is an object of my invention to simplify the construction of the pockets by taking the fabric and turning it over upon itself without seaming a large number of parts.

Another object of my invention is to provide a safety auxiliary pocket within the regular pocket so that the auxiliary pocket cannot be opened without some warning to the person wearing the trousers.

Other objects of my invention are to provide an improved device of the character described, that is easily and economically produced, which is sturdy in construction, and which is highly efficient in operation.

With the above and related objects in View, my invention consists in the following details of construction and combination of parts, as will be more fully understood from the following description, when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is an elevational view of a pair of trousers with a fragmentary section illustrating my improved pocket therein.

Fig. 2 is a view of an unfolded portion of my improved pocket.

Fig. 3 is a view of my pocket folded in position prior to being sewed in position on the garment.

Fig. 4 is a sectional View taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring now in greater detail to my invention, I show in Fig. 1 a pair of pants of the conventional type, which is generally designated as A. The pants A may be sewed and seamed in the conventional manner, and they also may be composed of suitable fabric material.

The pocket illustrated is the right-hand pocket and will be generally designated as B. The pocket B comprises a suitable fabric I'll that can stand the strain and stress imposed thereon and which, when folded over and seamed at 23, forms both the front wall I2 of the pocket and the rear wall H! (see Fig. 4). The walls 12 and M are formed by folding the side edges l6 and [8 to overlap one another and then seaming the edges l6 and I8 together. The walls 12 and I4 define what may be termed the main body B, and Within this main pocket is a safetyor auxiliary pocket, generally designated as C. The safety or auxiliary pocket has a piece of fabric 20 seamed at its edges 22 and 24, and to the top a binding 26 is seamed, which is preferably made at an incline to the horizontal plane.

The main pocket rear wall l4 also has a tape 28 seamed thereon, which is adjacent the tape binding 26, and between the tape edges 26 and 28 are joined suitable zipper hooks 30. A zipper closure 32 for the zipper is adapted to ride at an incline to a horizontal plane. Thus, the safety pocket C is within the main pocket 13; and in order to open the pocket, the zipper closure 32 must be pulled from the outside of the pants to the inside. Therefore, if a person endeavored to open the pocket, a pressure must be exerted against the body or leg of the party wearing the pants having the pocket therein.

It should be noted that this arrangement virtually makes the pocket theft-proof, because a pick-pocket upon opening the auxiliary pocket will arouse the attention of the person having the pocket on their person.

As an extra precaution to prevent any one from drawing the pocket B in its entirety from the pants, I disclose a strip, generally designated as D, which is connected to the crotch seam of the pants; and if the pick-pocket should endeavor to pull the pocket entirely out of the pants, the operation of the strip D will also attract the attention of the wearer. The fact that the strip D is located entirely within the pockets will prevent a pick-pocket from being able to cut the strip and. thereby pull the pocket entirely out from the pants. The strip arrangement prevents a pick-pocket from cutting the entire pocket from the pants as may be done with the old type of pockets, and it eliminates the danger of the pick-pocket being able to lift articles from the safety pocket.

The arrangement also does not prevent the full use of the main pocket B itself nor does the improved safety pocket or auxiliary pocket increase the cost of the pocket to any material extent.

Although my invention has been described in considerable detail, such description is intended as illustrative rather than limiting, since the invention may be variously embodied, and the scope of the invention is to be determined as claimed.

I claim as my invention:

In trousers having pockets therein, the combisaid strip connected immediately adjacent the main pocket and immediately adjacent the secondary pocket and the other end of the strip being connected adjacent the end of the zipper so that any attempt to pull the pocket from the garment in order to turn the pocket inside out will react to warn the wearer of the garment.

PETER PUODIS. 

